GDAR teams up with NCD Alliance and BBC StoryWorks as part of short film series They’re the world’s biggest killers. Non-communicable diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, and … Continue reading Turning the tide
RICHE | Africa Workshop on Healthy Cities – Report
Healthy Cities: Intersectoral approaches to non-communicable disease prevention in Africa Held 2-4 December 2019, STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa Africa is experiencing a double burden of disease. Non-communicable … Continue reading RICHE | Africa Workshop on Healthy Cities – Report
Kisumu: from hypermarket to household
How will changes in the food environment affect communities in Kenya? This article is an extract from epigram, the newsletter of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, which coordinates GDAR. Read the full issue … Continue reading Kisumu: from hypermarket to household
Global diet and health: GDAR and MRC Epidemiology Unit researchers discuss fresh evidence from a huge global study
The Global Burden of Disease study, which tracked trends in consumption of 15 dietary factors from 1990 to 2017 in 195 countries, and is now published in The Lancet, finds that … Continue reading Global diet and health: GDAR and MRC Epidemiology Unit researchers discuss fresh evidence from a huge global study
Funding awarded for new Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network (GDAR)
Press Release issued when the GDAR funding was announced in July 2017. The MRC Epidemiology Unit has been awarded funding by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for a … Continue reading Funding awarded for new Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network (GDAR)